[R] Resolution of plots?

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Feb 21 15:41:56 CET 2006


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Marcus Gry Björklund wrote:

> I have a problem regarding the output from the R plot window.

It seems you are using Windows, but you didn't say so!  I will assume that 
from here on down.

> I have a quite dense dendrogram that I wish to visualize using a suitable
> software (like Illustrator), and to accomplish that I right click on the
> image from the plotting device and I save as metafile. The problem is when I
> scale up the image, some of the vectors in the dendrogram image are
> inseparable.
>
> My question is if there is any way of increasing the resolution of the
> meta-file that I get from the plotting device?

No, as it is done to full metafile resolution (1/1200").  Why not plot on 
a larger size directly to a metafile using win.metafile?

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